Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.
A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?
I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.
After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I mended them. I retired from the world in order to try to comprehend it and to find out why it becomes more unsavoury as the years accumulate on a man's body. What do you think I discovered at the end of my meditations?" I felt pleased again. He was now questioning me. "What?" "That No is a better word than Yes," he replied.
Could Henry Ford produce the Book of Kells? Certainly not. He would quarrel initially with the advisability of such a project and then prove it was impossible.
Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.
Strain your brain more than your eye. . . You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.
But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.
Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not. " They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.